Seminars

Monday, October 7, 1996
Carmen Fernandez and Mark F.J. Steel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
"On Bayesian Modelling of Fat Tails and Skewness."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, October 9, 1996
General Examination
Andrew A. Schaffner
"Benchmarks, Facets, and the World-Wide Web: Tools for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education."
Advisor: David Madigan
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, October 10, 1996
General Examination
Carlos Diaz Avalos
"Space-time analysis of forest fires."
Advisor: Julian Besag
Social Work 32 at 11:30 A.M.

Thursday, October 10, 1996 (re-scheduled)
(Joint with the Department of Biostatistics)
Tom Fleming, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Biostatistics Department, University of Washington
"First Seminar - Academic Year 1996 - 1997."
Health Science T-639 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, October 14, 1996
Carmen Fernandez and Mark F.J. Steel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
"Reference Priors in non-Normal Location Problems."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, October 21, 1996
Peter Guttorp, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"The use of hidden Markov models in scientific applications."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, October 28, 1996
Ross H. Taplin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Murdoch University, Australia
"The Statistical Analysis of Preference Data."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, November 4, 1996
Dr. Tim Hesterberg, Research Scientist, Data Analysis Products Division, MathSoft, Inc.
"Tecumseh's Revenge, Paul Bunyan's Dog, and Seismic Deformation Estimation."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, November 6, 1996
General Examination - Angshuman Saha
"Application of Ridge Regression in Compartmental Models."
Advisor: Finbarr O'Sullivan
Thomson 135 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, November 11, 1996
Veteran's Day.

Monday, November 18, 1996
"Job Search Seminar."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, November 25, 1996
Douglas B. Clarkson, Senior Research Scientist, Data Analysis Products Division, MathSoft, Inc.
"A Random Effects Individual Differences Multidimensional Scaling Model."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, December 2, 1996
Donald Percival, Senior Mathematician, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
"Spectrum Estimation by Wavelet Thresholding of Multitaper Estimators."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, December 9, 1996
Adam Finkelstein, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
"Curve Editing and Image Querying: Two Applications of Wavelets in Computer Graphics."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.